Table of Contents

Acknowledgments   ix
Introduction: The Future of Film Sound Studies   1
Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda

Part 1: Theorizing Sound
1. The Phenomenology of Film Sound: Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped   23
John Belton
2. The Proxemics of the Mediated Voice   36
Arnt Maaso
3. Almost Silent: The Interplay of Sound and Silence in Contemporary Cinema and Television   51
Paul Theberge
4. The Sounds of "Silence": Dolby Stereo, Sound Design, and The Silence of the Lambs   68
Jay Beck

Part II: Historicizing Sound
5. Sonic Imagination; or, Film Sound as a Discursive Construct in Czech Culture of the Transitional Period   87
Petr Szczepanik
6. Sounds of the City: Alfred Newman's "Street Scene" and Urban Modernity   105
Matthew Malsky
7. Film and the Wagnerian Aspiration: Thoughts on Sound Design and the History of the Senses   123
James Lastra

Part III: Sound and Genre
8. Asynchronous Documentary: Bunuel's Land without Bread   141
Barry Mauer
9. "We'll Make a Paderewski of You Yet!": Acoustic Reflections in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T   152
Nancy Newman
10. Paul Sharits's Cinematics of Sound   171
Melissa Ragona
11. "Every Beautiful Sound Also Creates an Equally Beautiful Picture": Color Music and Walt Disney's Fantasia   183
Clark Farmer

Part IV: Film Sound and Cultural Studies
12. "A Question of the Ear": Listening to Touch of Evil   201
Tony Grajeda
13. "Sound Sacrifices": The Postmodern Melodramas of World War II   218
Debra White-Stanley
14. Real Fantasies: Connie Stevens, Silencio, and Other Sonic Phenomena in Mulholland Drive   233
Robert Miklitsch

Part V: Case Studies of Film Sound
15. Selling Spectacular Sound: Dolby and the Unheard History of Technical Trademarks   251
Paul Grainge
16. (S)lip-Sync: Punk Rock Narrative Film and Postmodern Musical Performance   269
David Laderman
17. Critical Hearing and the Lessons of Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up   289
David T. Johnson
18. Rethinking Point of Audition in The Cell   299
Anahid Kassabian

Works Cited   307
Contributors   327
Index   331